The Wrong Man

by Douglas Hirt

Seeking a meal and lodgings in Calico Lace, Colorado, Jacob Kellogg is baffled when the local townspeople greet him with hostility, until he discovers that he bears an uncanny resemblance to a young gunfighter named John Carver. Original.

248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

About the author

Douglas Hirt was born in Illinois, but heeding Horace Greeley's admonition to "Go west, young man", he headed to New Mexico at eighteen. Doug earned a Bachelor's degree from the College of Santa Fe and a Masters of Science degree from Eastern New Mexico University. During this time he spent several summers living in a tent in the desert near Carlsbad, New Mexico, conducting biological baseline surveys for the Department of Energy.

Doug drew heavily from this "desert life" when writing his first novel, DEVIL'S WIND. In 1991 Doug's novel, A PASSAGE OF SEASONS, won the Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award. His 1998 book, BRANDISH, and 1999 DEADWOOD, were finalists for the SPUR award given by the Western Writers of America.

A short story writer, and the author of twenty-nine novels and one book of non fiction, Doug now makes his home in Colorado Springs with his wife Kathy and their two children, Rebecca and Derick. When not writing or traveling to research his novels, Doug enjoys collecting and restoring old English sports cars.

Douglas Hirt is a "fabricator of armchair adventures" who also writes as Jason Elder and Doug Hawkins.

Reviews

[Nancy Vaiden]

Doubly nostalgic - in addition to being a romantic western, the audio reader's voice reminds me of Henry Fonda as this could well be a 60's movie.